On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > Curiously enough, the Delhi airport lists items prohibited for > carrying on planes, with the exception of kripans carried by sikhs > measuring under specific dimensions. > Last night at Garuda Mall, we saw a Sikh security person carrying a > kripan and a metal detector, both of roughly equal size, on the same > side of his body.
There is a huge transparent basket inside nairobi airport near the xray machines, where they routinely place confisicated nail clippers, dangerous looking ball-point pens, cigarette lighters which resemble guns etc. However, inside the basket, one can always see a couple of large yemeni swords, very many pangas (a heavy machete useful for cutting grass, and splitting open a coconut). Presumably people had tried to carry these inside hand-luggage, since I myself have carried a spear as checked-in baggage...
